Beta 14

New Features

• different start menu shortcuts on windows for all implemented translations

Fixes

• lara doesn't disappear at start of cistern anymore (EE-419)

Improvements

• faster loading times/improved particle generation speed
• underwater particles got a green-ish tint (EE-446)
• all necessary files are now checked on engine start (EE-441)

Other

• removed performance bar

Beta 13

⚠️ Savegames are not compatible with previous versions.

Fixes

• inventory rendering fixed (EE-423)
• drawing a weapon that's not in inventory doesn't produce a crash anymore
• shotguns do more damage now (EE-434)
• boulder doesn't roll of to one side anymore (EE-433)
• t-rex doesn't turn head too much anymore (EE-438)
• bats should not shiver anymore when dying and hitting the ground (EE-442)
• winged mutant now flies properly now (EE-437, EE-395)
• boulders now fully drop to the ground when stopped (EE-310)
• some textures didn't animate properly (EE-443)

New Features

• lighing added to inventory (EE-422)
• ambient track volume fading (EE-426)
• pc cheats to skip level and add all weapons
• lara says "no" when using a key/puzzle item in the inventory (EE-415)
• page indicator added to savegame list (EE-427)
• savegames can be sorted by date now (use step left/right) (EE-430)

Improvements

• logarithmic instead of linear volume
• save slots increased to 100 (EE-428)
• picking up weapons now shows both weapon and ammo widgets (EE-436)
• faster ai path calculations
• no more showing the console window in release builds (EE-439)
• crumbling floors shouldn't show rendering issues anymore (EE-445)

Changes

• scripts cleaned up (EE-421)
• most shadows removed so only "living" entities cast shadows (EE-435)
• dust particles darkened, reduced in size, randomized size, and increased density

Beta 12

Fixes

• no more wicked camera movement in front of blocks (EE-416)
• no more date strings with certain foreign characters crashing the engine
• savegame loading leading to bugged games resolved

New Features

• new display option to double ui scale (EE-417)

Changes

• level sequence invetory manipulation split into separate items (EE-408)
• sliding sound effect immediately stops now when sliding stops (EE-412)
• decreased sound distance
• external audio file is now used for secret sound instead of internal one

Beta 11.3

This contains a few more tiny fixes than strictly necessary for a hotfix.

Fixes

• hopefully the final hotfix release for beta 11
• videos now respect global volume setting (EE-405)
• fixed inverted weapon aiming state update
• fixed exploding enemies' particles not flying far enough (EE-407)
• entities are now immediately visible after room swaps (EE-414)

Other

• update readme to add dfactor longplay youtube video
• log engine version to logs

Beta 11.2

⚠️ This release is broken, don't use it.

Another hotfix release (because hotfixes are fun).

Beta 11.1

⚠️ This release is broken, don't use it.

This is a hotfix release, fixing a dumb copy-pasta error leading to immediate crashes.

Beta 11

⚠️ This release is broken, don't use it.

Saves are probably broken in case they belong to levels that have room swaps and doors close to swapped rooms.

Fixes

• crash when touching a static mesh in a very specific condition fixed (EE-401)
• no more "machine gun" weapons (EE-402)
• doors are no longer passable if they touch swappable rooms (EE-392)

Improvements

• better logging in case of crashes
• readme maintenance (EE-403)

Beta 10

Saves are incompatible with previous versions.

Fixes

• pickup item counter now counts number of shots correctly (EE-387)
• no more crashes when unplugging controllers (EE-385)
• climb up ledge, then roll, doesn't let lara fall down the other side anymore (EE-390)
• inventory compass and weapon selection sounds were swapped (EE-388)
• increased shotgun precsision (EE-393)
• jump up + grab now properly moves lara faster in certain directions, fixing some precision jumps (EE-400)
• lara can no longer draw her pistols at home (EE-384)
• numeric overflow in baddie turn speed calculations fixed

Improvements

• add black transparent background to pickup widget counter (EE-399)
• weapon pickups are replaced by their ammo pickups if lara already has that weapon in her inventory (EE-251)
• ai pathfinding uses shorter routes now

New features

• feature toggle to reset health between levels (EE-389)

Beta 9

New Features

• ghost recording

Fixes

• thor lightning emitter can be avoided now (EE-383)
• thor lightning emitter doesn't show lara's hips anymore (#193)
• fix installer package file inclusion

Changes

• version scheme changed so that betas will be 0.x from now on

Beta 8

⚠️ This release uses a new packaging process and provides the first installer ever for EdisonEngine.

As a reminder: You can place your TR1 data in %LOCALAPPDATA%\edisonengine, if you do so, using the installer will be a safe way to update EdisonEngine without accidentally deleting saves or the game data.

New Features

• item count added to pickup widgets if the item picked up increases the total count of that item to more than one (EE-302)
• add basic installer configuration

Fixes

• lara can now properly grab every bridge (#189)
• dust is now properly rendered in front of objects
• items no longer re-spawn after loading a save (#184, EE-381)
• "free look" now allows looking down into pits (EE-382)
• splash screen properly resizes now (EE-374)

Other

• gsl-lite version bumped
• cimg now always fetched from external source
• some minor refactorings and code love
• removed debug overlay